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You've obviously never been to r/The_Do____ have you? That place bans anyone who even fails to upvote for the circlejerk

And make no mistake about this. Bans are an establishment Li beral thing. It's so pathetic to watch them trying to protect their Crony gravy trains. Poor things don't understand their fall is inevitable.
So long as the Conservatives are a minority on campuses they must know whose side to be on.

So somebody posted a thread about disproportionate crime among certain groups recently, and it was locked shortly thereafter, despite that the discussion within the thread was very tame (the title was troll bait, but no trolls showed up).

On the one hand there wasn't really anything interesting going on in the thread and I don't think it was likely to go anywhere interesting, but on the other hand this seems like a pretty broad definition of racist, since in principle we should be allowed to talk about that kind of thing. Even staunch antiracists acknowledge that crime rates are a problem. Even if we think they're not a problem, shouldn't people be allowed to talk about it in order to ultimately arrive at that conclusion?

I'm all for banning slurs, but I don't think you should police substantive content, and I'm really irritated now.

You've obviously never been to r/The_Do____ have you? That place bans anyone who even fails to upvote for the circlejerk

And make no mistake about this. Bans are an establishment Li beral thing. It's so pathetic to watch them trying to protect their Crony gravy trains. Poor things don't understand their fall is inevitable.
So long as the Conservatives are a minority on campuses they must know whose side to be on.

the admins and many mods on re**it are hypermarxist and any event that makes leftism look bad results in relevant threads getting locked and turned into "comment graveyards" in subre**its that aren't supposed to look partisan or shill ridden to normies, eg; /r/pics, /r/videos, /r/news. as t_d circlejerks, shills flood in and call it just as biased as the rest of re**it for banning concern trolls, shills, and antagonists. but there was never a suggestion that it wasn't, and so t_d became indispensible to that s**tstain of a site.

You've obviously never been to r/The_Do____ have you? That place bans anyone who even fails to upvote for the circlejerk

And make no mistake about this. Bans are an establishment Li beral thing. It's so pathetic to watch them trying to protect their Crony gravy trains. Poor things don't understand their fall is inevitable.
So long as the Conservatives are a minority on campuses they must know whose side to be on.

the admins and many mods on re**it are hypermarxist and any event that makes leftism look bad results in relevant threads getting locked and turned into "comment graveyards" in subre**its that aren't supposed to look partisan or shill ridden to normies, eg; /r/pics, /r/videos, /r/news. as t_d circlejerks, shills flood in and call it just as biased as the rest of re**it for banning concern trolls, shills, and antagonists. but there was never a suggestion that it wasn't, and so t_d became indispensible to that s**tstain of a site.
tl;dr war chose us

That is very interesting. Now please go back to Reddit; you are not welcome here. This is for economists and not just random "people with an economics-related opinion," mm kay?

You've obviously never been to r/The_Do____ have you? That place bans anyone who even fails to upvote for the circlejerk

And make no mistake about this. Bans are an establishment Li beral thing. It's so pathetic to watch them trying to protect their Crony gravy trains. Poor things don't understand their fall is inevitable.
So long as the Conservatives are a minority on campuses they must know whose side to be on.

the admins and many mods on re**it are hypermarxist and any event that makes leftism look bad results in relevant threads getting locked and turned into "comment graveyards" in subre**its that aren't supposed to look partisan or shill ridden to normies, eg; /r/pics, /r/videos, /r/news. as t_d circlejerks, shills flood in and call it just as biased as the rest of re**it for banning concern trolls, shills, and antagonists. but there was never a suggestion that it wasn't, and so t_d became indispensible to that s**tstain of a site.
tl;dr war chose us

That is very interesting. Now please go back to Reddit; you are not welcome here. This is for economists and not just random "people with an economics-related opinion," mm kay?

You've obviously never been to r/The_Do____ have you? That place bans anyone who even fails to upvote for the circlejerk

And make no mistake about this. Bans are an establishment Li beral thing. It's so pathetic to watch them trying to protect their Crony gravy trains. Poor things don't understand their fall is inevitable.
So long as the Conservatives are a minority on campuses they must know whose side to be on.

the admins and many mods on re**it are hypermarxist and any event that makes leftism look bad results in relevant threads getting locked and turned into "comment graveyards" in subre**its that aren't supposed to look partisan or shill ridden to normies, eg; /r/pics, /r/videos, /r/news. as t_d circlejerks, shills flood in and call it just as biased as the rest of re**it for banning concern trolls, shills, and antagonists. but there was never a suggestion that it wasn't, and so t_d became indispensible to that s**tstain of a site.
tl;dr war chose us

That is very interesting. Now please go back to Reddit; you are not welcome here. This is for economists and not just random "people with an economics-related opinion," mm kay?

So somebody posted a thread about disproportionate crime among certain groups recently, and it was locked shortly thereafter, despite that the discussion within the thread was very tame (the title was troll bait, but no trolls showed up).
On the one hand there wasn't really anything interesting going on in the thread and I don't think it was likely to go anywhere interesting, but on the other hand this seems like a pretty broad definition of racist, since in principle we should be allowed to talk about that kind of thing. Even staunch antiracists acknowledge that crime rates are a problem. Even if we think they're not a problem, shouldn't people be allowed to talk about it in order to ultimately arrive at that conclusion?
I'm all for banning slurs, but I don't think you should police substantive content, and I'm really irritated now.

I was poster 07dc in that thread, i.e. the least trollish and highest voted (lol, for now) poster. The thread was clearly not going anywhere. We have lost nothing by its closure.

I teach a lot of white students who come from very sheltered backgrounds, and a lot of them have all sorts of crazy ideas from parents who read the Bell Curve or whatever. Most of the ideas, like what OP of that thread was alluding to, are such transparent nonsense that a sentence or two of additional facts offered without condescension are enough to get them thinking differently. The initial conversation never goes anywhere, though.